A new romantic comedy starring a middle-aged Jack Nicholson, with a certain resemblance to a Stanley Kubrik movie, has a “trailer on YouTube. (HT: Andrew McGonigal)

If you’d rather win the world cup from your own computer, and have several hours between grading to spare playing online cricket games, you’ll love Stick Cricket. If you are susceptible to timesinks, you’ll hate me for posting this.

The Michigan grad students have a new blog, Go Grue. I’m always pleased to see new grad student group blogs; it’s a good way to get ideas talked about.

There is a nice article about Terence Tao in the NY Times this morning. As many of you will know, I was one year away from being Prof Tao’s teammate on the Australian Maths Olympiad team. There are a few interesting comments in the article about the move from doing maths competitions to becoming a professional mathematician.

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We at the university of London have a blog called http://www.blogginthequestion.blogspot.com, it’s a pure philosophy blog, mostly about philosophy of language, science, mind, metaphysics and epistemolgy so far. Anyone interested in publishing a post is welcome, just send it to me at jonnyblamey@yahoo.com. criteria is it should be short, (500words) polemic and graduate level without being super cautious.